Six Flags Great Escape was located on Lake George, and was a little bit of a disapointment due to the lack of rides, however, the water park was quite good. The only really decent ride in the park was a wooden roller coaster called the Comet, which was built in 1927! It was the redeaming feature of the park. For a really old coaster it was actually somewhat smooth. We rode the Comet about 5 times in a row.
Next we ventured forth to Six Flags New England, which is home to Bizarro, the 2nd best coaster in the world. It sure lived up to our expectations! The coaster took you up over 200 feet and then dropped you at a near verticle angle. The ride twisted and turned around the park and passed under a walkway tunnel. Not as good as Millenium Force, but still a brilliant coaster! The view from the top was great; you could see the whole of the park. In the last few hours of one of the days we rode this one four times!
Another great coaster was the Batman coaster. This was our first experience of a florless coaster, in which you ride on top of the track but there is no floor. It was an interesting concept, but quickly became one of my favourite types of coaster. This coaster also featured an inversion called a zero-g roll, which was also great. You were off of your seat through the whole roll! This one was one of the best coasters I've been on!
The next park was Dorney Park, and after a mix-up woth our hotel room we were straight out to theme park, which was conviniently located on the other side of the road. There was no huge coaster here, but there were four coasters that made the park great!
Talon was probably the best coaster in the park! It was a suspended looping coaster that seated four accross a row. I think it had four loops but may have had five... Like 90% of the coasters here it was really smooth! If you've ever been on the Lethal Weapon in queensland it's abit like that, only much bigger and better! Unfortunately this ride was closed for half of one of the days we were at Dorney Park.
Our other favourite coaster in Dorney Park was Hydra, a floorless coaster with 7 inversions! It had an awesome twist out of the station, and although the drop was not awfuly large it did pick up some major speed!
Some other good coasters were Possessed, which was just like the wicked twister in Cedar Point but only with a twist in one end and Steel Force, which was a 200 foot steel coaster with a very long hill lift! When we saw it we were expecting a rough ride like Magnum XL-200, but it was much, much smoother! The drop on the coaster was very good and you got some decent air-time on some of the hills.
The most recent park we've visited was Six Flags Great Adventure. It had an abundance of coasters, challenging Cedar Point's 'Best Park in the World' reputation. The main two coasters there were El Toro and Kingda Ka.
Kingda Ka is a 458 foot (139 metre) stratacoaster that blasts you from 0-210km/h in 3.5 seconds. These amazing statistics earn it the world record for the tallest coaster and 2nd in the world for speed. After lining up for 2 hours we finally got to ride it, and we came off of it thinking it was good, but not as good as the smaller dragster. Yesterday we rode it in the front... a different story! This coaster totally beats the dragster in the front! It's got a noticeably faster launch, and the view from the top was spectacular! Riding it in the night was awesome aswell!!
El Toro was an equally fantastic wooden coaster. It features a 76 degree drop and reaches speeds of over 75 miles per hour, earning it the title of the 2nd best wooden coaster in the world. The front of this was amazing! But the back was good as well. You were out of your seat for most of the ride, especially the three hills. It was the smoothest wooden coaster we've been on so far, due to it's prefabricated wooden track (it was built in 2006).
This park also had some other great rides, such as Nitro, a sit on top coaster voted as 3rd best in the world, Superman Ultimate Flight, a lie down coaster and the Green Lantern, a stand up coaster only built this year. They were all fantastic, but I've just chosen the best two to talk about. Anyways, Superman was also awesome so here's a photo...
Superman and the Green Lantern
We were also (un)fortunate to have a lightning storm pass over the park. The rides were closed from about 6:30, but it was a spectacular show! We eventually left and I managed to get this shot from the car park...
My Awesome Photography =P
We just arrived at a new hotel. More updates soon... =)
